Death Spiral (insurance)
Death spiral is an insurance plan with costs that rapidly increase as a result of changes in the covered population. It is the result of adverse selection in insurance policies where lower risk policy holders choose to change policies or be uninsured. The term is found in the academic literature at least as early as Cutler and Zeckhauser's 1997 paper "Adverse Selection in Health Insurance" which refers explicitly to an "adverse selection death spiral".
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